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Sketches/ ref page for Miles’ outfit in the comic.

You can read it here!

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do you ever sabotage your own free time? like wtf is that about? i want to play this game or read or do something specific but instead i will just stare out the window or scroll mindlessly???

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happy 3-year anniversary to this iconic video :)

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M’Baku in Wakanda Forever is proof that you can give a Marvel character funny moments while also giving them emotional depth without taking away from the heart of the movie (and actually adding to it)

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Black Panther Wakanda Forever was a beautiful representation about how people of color are pit against each other because of hurt and pain caused by colonialism and the fear of it.

Too often we treat oppression as if it is a competition. Who has suffered more, whose history was the roughest, who receives more compassion or hate from the rest of the world. And even when we try to work together often we don’t want to bend in our ways or be open in order to understand another or communicate/listen effectively to come to an agreement on how we can stand together.

In this movie, the UN and the CIA were of course a threat to the protagonists, but they truly didn’t even have to intervene directly. The mere threat of exploitation and colonization was enough to nearly drive Talokan and Wakanda into a frenzy and start fighting one another and hurting each other. And sometimes we get so caught up in the hurt and the vengeance until we’re bleeding out with our hands around each other’s throats and we pause to think “why are we even doing this to each other?”

Ultimately it’s pointless, the endless cycle of pain and hurt and for what? That’s what the colonizers want. The UN/CIA knew nothing about Talokan, but if Wakanda and Talokan had wiped each other out, they would’ve loved nothing more than to sweep up and exploit the vibranium resources left behind without having to do any of the dirty work. Shuri realized that being consumed with vengeance wasn’t going to help anybody, and the fear/threat of losing more loved ones was only going to get more people hurt. It killed Killmonger and it was killing Shuri, Namor and their people. The very people they were trying to protect. They both saw the beauty in each other’s cultures, and they knew it was worth dying to protect, but not like this. Why should they tear each other down like this when they have both fought such hardship to thrive?

Originally Talokan saw Wakanda’s act of opening their borders as a threat against themselves, but it was the fear of what the colonizers would do, and yet Talokan attacked Wakanda for it. In the end, their perspective shifted, and Wakanda also chose to respect their decision to remain a closed culture.

We celebrate each other’s differences in their cultural uniqueness, and we come together to unite over our values in order to support one other.

The only way we stand a chance against the effects of colonization and the systems set in place today is if we continue to find ways to support one another and stand together, instead of doing the work for the oppressors and tearing each other down.

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Just gonna leave this here for you all. A gift from the Wakanda Forever press tour.

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LUPITA NYONG'O on the most emotional part of filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | ELLE (November 14, 2022)

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I don’t think y’all understand how long I stared at this photo in awe, like she literally looks otherworldly

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Ruth E. Carter’s work cannot be understated, beyond the cinematography, lighting, and VFX; her work is the true bow that holds it all together.

I can feel that Oscar in her hands.

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Mesoamerican culture is being featured in one of the most anticipated movies of the year and I am not gonna pretend like I care a normal amount about this okay. I'm jumping off the walls with excitement, I'm telling all my friends and family.

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BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022) dir. Ryan Coogler | Official Teaser

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me: no crying no crying no crying no crying no crying no crying no crying no crying no crying no crying no cr-

marvel: *changes the opening title to honor chadwick*

me:

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LUPITA NYONG'O as NAKIA in BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER 2022 | dir. Ryan Coogler

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my Mexican dad before we went to go see Wakanda Forever: so Namor, it means like “no love”? Is that part of his character?

me: no dad, that’s just been the character’s name since 1939.

Namor in the movie: so I took that as my name, “Namor,” the child without love!

my dad:

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#Despite everything, they didn’t kill him

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WE MUST REMAIN STRONG LADIES🗣😩

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Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, and Letitia Wright photographed by Phylicia J. L. Munn for People Magazine